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 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Solipsism
Posted: 7/29/2012 9:24:00 AM
My stars tell me that they love Capitalism. Because like my ancestors (the Stars) it's a lot more fun being the upper 1%.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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If a plane is infinite...
Posted: 7/29/2012 9:15:53 AM
The inability to measure a perfect distance is proof enough that infinity is possible. That's my point. So it's safer to assume any distance is infinite and that we humans attempt to pinpoint as little as we can to set a visually finite distance. After all it doesn't serve me to know what one ten-thousandths of an inch is if I'm making a chair. However it would matter if I was building a particle collider.

The expansion of the universe is a very shady theory. In my opinion. It works fine and dandy for us but couldn't our viewable universe just as easily be a spec on a stretching and retracting space? I mean, if that was the case it would very easily appear as though our universe was expanding. Maybe it could be compared to humans that once believed the Sun went round the Earth simply because from where they were standing it appeared that way.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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If a plane is infinite...
Posted: 7/28/2012 9:38:19 PM
I remember reading about Plancks Length. It's easy for us to fathom a Planck because it is by design a theory attempting to make absolute of a distance (or one so close no difference can be measured). Our brains are comfortable by default with finite lengths. As Dawkins said it favors our evolution to think in terms of a middle-world. Where everything is distinctly finite.

We're all being theoretical I'm simply saying that you can't prove mathematically or physically that any distance is finite. That's why I agree with Krauss in that it is safer to assume infinity since it doesn't cap our ability to imagine.


P.S.
I looked up the Wiki and I think this quote says it best:
"In string theory, the Planck length is the order of magnitude of the oscillating strings that form elementary particles, and shorter lengths do not make physical sense."
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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There is no such thing as time, and thus no such thing as death
Posted: 7/28/2012 9:26:18 PM
Well how relevant is 'real'? I've always felt that it's a mistake to imagine something has purpose for me. Rather I can give purpose to my life. From that purpose I can determine what is real. The best part of that equation is that I can rely on the evidence of the world that surrounds me to be used in creating purpose. Rather than pretend I live in a garden of snakes and apples.

Everything is made of stuff. A second 'bombshell' might easily be added to Grands quote in saying this: Evidence of reality is based only at its core on our senses and our belief that those senses are working in our favor. If you derive the origin of every sense you can divide them down to one: Touch. Touch is the only real sense. Every other sense is merely a different neural program for interpreting touch. We live in a physical world and it is the only world we have ever known likely ever will. Any time we claim to have evidence of what is real is based solely on the fact that the evidence itself is physical. To claim otherwise is, well, delusional. It is also impractical when concerning are most basic survival needs. So whatever is real must be physical first and vice versa.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Not quite speed of light...
Posted: 7/28/2012 4:27:35 PM
If you're already dealing with a spaceship powered by unlimited energy then you've said more then can care to be discovered from the idea.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Aquatic Ape theory?
Posted: 7/28/2012 4:24:06 PM

Those old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs aint fooling me!!!! (retired mermaids)


rofl... you just turned Whistler's Mother into a mermaid on medicade. Thanks for the laugh.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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The Future—Humans, Computers/Robots, and Intelligence
Posted: 7/28/2012 4:21:01 PM
In the year 3000!

There will be love-bots.
It will contribute to the end of online dating.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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There is no such thing as time, and thus no such thing as death
Posted: 7/28/2012 4:18:07 PM
I think it's incredibly enlightening, at least it was to me, when certain human definitions are abolished or broken down. For example, matter is never destroyed. Nor is it created. This to me would seem that life (or death) are only important to a conscience state of mind. While conscience, while alive, we favor the state of living. There is however no less or more usefulness to our environment in a state of life. Than there is in a state of death. Technically I agree with you, we never die because matter never dies. It just gets recombined in a flowing wave of existence with everything near to it.

Read this quote from Steve Grand:

“Consider yourself. I want you to imagine a scene from your childhood. Pick something evocative... Something you can remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you WEREN'T there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilse simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.”
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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If a plane is infinite...
Posted: 7/28/2012 4:11:10 PM
Any distance is infinte. There is no evidence that inner-space or outer-space has any finite boundary. So whether theoretical, imagined or measured any plane is infinite. Just because you can see both ends of a ruler does not make it finite.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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If a plane is infinite...
Posted: 7/28/2012 5:52:36 AM
Only humans measure in fractions because it is relevant to how we define our environment. Matter is otherwise always whole. So long as we continue to see smaller (and larger) it should be perceived as infinite. Only the religious think in finite terms. Which is ironic when you think about it.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Time travel... just doesnt work.
Posted: 7/27/2012 9:47:53 PM
Time is horribly misconceived thanks to Hollywood and bad water cooler conversations. Time is not a recording of matter (of existence). If you built a machine that 'took' you 'back' to December 5th, 1985 you still would not have traveled through time. You would have only recombined all matter to be exactly as it was on December 5th, 1985. The idea of time passing or for something to age is just a human measurement. It serves us but is otherwise completely irrelevant to the architecture of the Universe (or any verse).
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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If a plane is infinite...
Posted: 7/27/2012 9:40:38 PM
I'm a Surveyor by trade. The absolute most fundamental rule of Surveying is that perfection does not exist. My every attempt at accuracy is an attempt to solute the lowest amount of error acceptable within the parameters of what is being designed.

Absolute points are never obtained. This is explained very well in Zeno's Paradox. Which basically states that if you always travel half the distance from you to your target you'll never actually reach your target. Richard Dawkins would probably say that because we live in a 'middle-world' what we consider close or far is relative only to our middle-world and that to an Atom. To the Atom the distance from your eyes to your nose would be immense or 'far'.

Certainty isn't a very good word for it. I'm certain that when I pick up a phone to make a phone call that I am holding it. But in actuality the cells that make up my hand are never touching the molecules that make up the phone.

But don't fall too deep down the Rabbit Hole. Just be certain that you aren't certain. :p
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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met an older woman and not sure how to proceed
Posted: 7/27/2012 9:29:50 PM


if you wanted to bang her again, you should have set it up. what were you waiting for? a neon billboard with COME FVCK ME TONIGHT!! in 5-foot flashing letters?


lol, reminds me of George Carlin.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Three Words
Posted: 7/27/2012 9:27:56 PM
Busty, Kind, Loyal
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Online dating without texting?
Posted: 7/27/2012 5:49:53 PM
I hate texting. Call me or let's meet for a drink. Texting is cautious delay and usually wears out both parties. Be brave and meet someone in public.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Ever Been In Love? Horrible, Isn't It?
Posted: 7/27/2012 5:00:40 PM
Part of the reason for even bothering to use a tool as powerful as the internet is to be picky.

Chin up. It can't rain all the time.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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poem
Posted: 7/27/2012 4:58:36 PM
Very nice. Draws a lot of imagery for me. Could be taken different ways. Clever.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Is there really ever a Mutual Breakup?
Posted: 7/27/2012 4:54:56 PM
Every break-up is mutual. It has to be because people can not own people. Whether you wanted it to happen or not is irrelevant.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Where the Metalheads at?
Posted: 7/27/2012 1:41:18 PM
Every woman I see seems to listen to Rap, Hip-hop and/or Country.

I blame the 90s for killing good American heavy metal. Today the best can only be found overseas.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Best cheap date you have!!!
Posted: 7/26/2012 5:56:35 PM
It was a stick of chewing gum. Fruit Stripe chewing gum. We left the club, scared the cat then came back to dance and drink some more.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Best song one liners/lyrics you love
Posted: 7/26/2012 5:46:16 PM
"Never knowing who or what you are until you're living with the unfamiliar." -October Project


"I KNOW YOU'RE ****ING SOMEONE ELSE! (Chorus He knows you're ****ing someone else!)." -Type O Negative



"I knew that we were having problems when; You put those Piranha in my bathtub again." -Weird-Al Yankovic
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Having a child with a disability things to not say...
Posted: 7/26/2012 5:39:22 PM
No, that's just plain cruelty. When someone is desperate they will lash out on you. That's all that is.

It would not deter me if what I liked about the woman was true and not a fallacy.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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We
Posted: 7/26/2012 5:35:59 PM
Daffodils sing a scent that bribes
As they guide the fragile stride of May.
With their first glim of life I imbibe
Of a wisdom that might soon fade away.

Often in a life, or of its theft,
Like a flower that blooms early,
We of a garden and as just bereft,
Are imprisoned by what we find pearly.

Grand that each bud of deserving life cares
Enough to court its own doom.
So that in their blossom of mostly dares
The bets shall nurture at least one bloom.

Perhaps if such were true of we
The more darling then we'd be.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Pictures
Posted: 7/26/2012 4:52:59 PM
Usually the same thing most women like to see: A good smile. A good body shot. A public adventure.

Those boil down to my personal 'holy-trinity' of inquisition. Is she kind? Is she attractive? Does she leave the house?
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Do guys think Emma Stone is attractive? Just curious!
Posted: 7/26/2012 4:50:25 PM
I do. I find her very attractive.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Profile Review Request
Posted: 7/26/2012 3:42:32 PM
I'm actually appreciating the honesty.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Profile Review Request
Posted: 7/26/2012 11:28:44 AM
Looks good to me. I always say that it's best to be honest because we should be trying to scare away the undesirables not attract every possible outcome. I know a lot of people say 'play the numbers' but that's a gamblers attitude and gamblers never win.

Looks like a good profile man. Good luck.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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poems
Posted: 7/26/2012 11:02:07 AM
Nice, I like those.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Deep In Those Waters
Posted: 7/26/2012 11:00:12 AM
Beautiful poem.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Painted With A Smile
Posted: 7/25/2012 5:48:54 PM
There is a quiet, rarely found reverbing welcome peace.
That finds you fast when colors drown; when every word has ceased.
A silence loud like monstrous bells
As just before their clappers swell.

In this stillness I am resident to a host of many things.
To cloudy posters of unprecedent memories filled with stings.
Then does wine in crystal
Mend a clear dismissal.

But oft a strange occurrence weighs in the bottom of these thoughts.
A jocund hope that begs for praise; an Alamo I'd forgot.
It corks the sadness for a time
When it stokes in perfect rhyme.

It is the stamp of every plea that's cobbled by my wiles;
An awkward portrait that mirrors see but painted with a smile.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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horror films, what are the best?
Posted: 7/25/2012 5:36:11 PM
You got good taste in horror movies Colt. Near Dark is highly underrated.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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horror films, what are the best?
Posted: 7/24/2012 11:28:48 PM
Clive Barker is the king of horror. Hellraiser 1-3 are among my all time favorites.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Cosplay! :D
Posted: 7/24/2012 5:20:08 PM
I did a GREAT Comedian costume (from Watchmen) and didn't take pictures. I haven't decided yet what I'm doing this year for the WizCon.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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your personal theme song
Posted: 7/24/2012 5:18:15 PM
Male Supremacy by Carnivore
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Metal
Posted: 7/24/2012 4:59:51 PM
Best metal band to see live for me was Type O Negative. They will always be my favorite. They had a sad end. Steele was a great man.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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I love singing, anyone else??
Posted: 7/24/2012 4:58:08 PM
So do I. It's fun.
 Knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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Did u come here for TrueLove or Lust ? Why r u here really ?
Posted: 7/24/2012 4:57:16 PM
I guess I came here looking for love. It still sounds like a bad idea.
 knightrose
Joined: 11/2/2010
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is it real?
Posted: 7/16/2012 7:39:51 AM
Well I told myself I wouldn't post on this kind of forum again but here goes my opinion once more.

Personally I think a lot of people treat internet dating like a lottery. Hoping they'll win the attraction or compassion of someone beautiful or out of reach. Every woman seems to want a buff Dan Fogelberg and every man wants a Merilyn Monroe. I've heard my opinion retorted many times but I never was convinced that those disagreeing with me were telling the truth.

In our hearts we are all hopeless. I find no lesser or greater amount of liars dating through the internet then I have from bars, churches or bowling alleys. The only thing more powerful on the internet is our level of anonymity which to some (or perhaps many) is a credit card for fantasy.

There's a line from an October Project song that I've always liked: "Never knowing who or what you are until you're living with the unfamiliar." Give character before vanity a chance and you may just find happiness. I have found that I have known women I found attractive after learning who they were. It was quite remarkable really: Finding someone beautiful whom at first you never considered for a pageant.
 
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